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Subject: RE: server side tools... From: shalperin@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Shalperin) Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:33:18 -0700 |
> From: James Robertson <jamesr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >> [SNIP] >> But I would ask: why C++ instead of Java? >> [SNIP] >> >> From: "Guy Murphy" <guy-murphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Performance? :) And the real reason is... C++ is stable. Tools exist for our needs on the front end as well as the back end. Java only recently made the leap to the server side, so we're a little hesitant to implement a large system (3-tiered) with a language that's still evolving. <vent> Besides, ever try debugging a servlet? I don't know how much things have progressed, but about a year ago, when I was learning Java, I asked a co-worker how I could use Kawa to debug a servlet. The answer, "Huh? Oh, you can't," made me experience a paradigm shift of great magnitude: suddenly I was catapulted back in time to the days of printf's and symdeb... the resultant look of shock on my face generated much laughter. I won't describe the chain of expletives that went thru my mind - had we really evolved to this? I dunno, maybe I'm just an old codger who's set in my ways. ;) (BTW, it is possible to debug servlets, but it's not an obvious integrated part of the "IDE".) Aside from that, the idea of browser dependence dictating which version of the language I can use really *irks* me (yes, yes, of course that's only for client-side Java). We're already dealing with that issue with Javascript and HTML and I'd rather it not trickle back into the server side. This is why I want to do all my XSL + XML = XML/HTML on the server side, swapping parsers as is necessary. </vent> <evangelism> XML is exciting technology and I feel that XSL is the key that lets me leave browser dependence behind. It's the next step in the evolution of platform independent information dissemination. Woo hoo! </evangelism> -s XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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